How to configure IPv6 EIGRP on Cisco IOS Router

Cisco’s EIGRP is one of the routing protocols that is suitable for IPv6. Configuration is a bit different and in this lesson I’ll demonstrate to you how to configure it. This is the topology we’ll use:

Note that I don’t have any global unicast IPv6 addresses on the FastEthernet interface because the EIGRP updates will be sent using the link-local addresses.

First, you need to start EIGRP with the ipv6 router eigrp command. The number you see is the autonomous system number and it has to match on both routers. Each EIGRP router needs a router ID which is the highest IPv4 address on the router.

If you don’t have any IPv4 addresses you need to specify it yourself with the router-id command. By default, the EIGRP process is in shutdown mode and you need to type no shutdown to activate it.

Last step is to enable it on the interfaces with the ipv6 eigrp command. Let’s verify our configuration:

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I also did this lab and just as the first poster stated there is no Router-ID command.

note I tested this on the newest cisco VIRL IOS that I have imported into GNS3 and I also tested on the 7200 model. So neither of the routers can use this command. this means it must be something legacy or a typo. also the 7200 gns3 image is quite a bit older than the newer cisco VIRL image that both did not work says this has probably not been an option for a while.

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